Effort Management In North Carolina Fisheries: A Total Systems Approach A report to the North Carolina Moratorium Steering Committ

In response to fishing pressures, in 1994 the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill creating a two-year moratorium on the issuance of new commercial vessels licenses. This moratorium was meant to slow down the effects of these pressures while a group created by that same moratorium bill, the North Carolina Fisheries Moratorium Steering Committee, develops a set of recommendations to the General Assembly concerning possible new ways of managing our marine fisheries.